Rodent Removal in Colleyville, TX
Colleyville was stitched together from six farm communities in 1956 and kept its rural zoning, so its brick homes sit on wooded lots with the trees close to the roof. One call books a free roofline and attic inspection from a licensed contractor.
- Free attic and roofline inspection
- Phone answered 24 hours a day
- TDA-licensed contractors on every job
Free Inspection in Colleyville
The free inspection on a Colleyville house starts with the trees and ends in the attic. Whoever attends looks at every limb, fence top and utility drop that reaches the roof, walks the eaves for open soffit seams and returns, checks the ridge and gable vents, the chimney caps and the stacks from the roof, looks at the garage door seals and the outbuildings, then reads the attic for droppings, rub marks and trails in the insulation. The written findings put trapping, sealing and any cleanup on separate lines.
Colleyville sits in northeast Tarrant County, north of Hurst and Bedford and south of Grapevine along State Highway 26, so the contractor we route usually comes from the northeast side of the county. The phone is answered 24 hours a day. Book a free inspection and say what you hear and where in the house.
Rural zoning kept the trees, and the trees reach the roofs
Colleyville was formed on January 10, 1956, when the old farm communities of Bransford, Spring Garden, Pleasant Run, Pleasant Glade, Red Rock and Glen Hope joined under the name of a local doctor to avoid being absorbed by Hurst. The new city kept strict zoning to hold its country character, which is why its subdivisions from the 1970s through the 2000s are large brick homes on half-acre and acre lots with the post oaks, cedar elms and pecans left standing. Forty years on, those trees are over the roofs.
UF/IFAS describes the roof rat as arboreal, an animal that travels along branches and wires, and a limb on the shingles is the shortest road to a ridge vent end or a soffit seam. The houses are slab-on-grade brick veneer with composition shingle roofs and blown insulation, so the entry list is the roofline and the garage: ridge ends, gable vents, the seam where the soffit meets the brick, the returns on a two-story, the weep holes and the door seal. Rodent exclusion closes them in steel and the report names the limbs to cut back.
Big Bear Creek and Little Bear Creek run through the middle of town
The creeks that drew the first farmers are still there, and they are the Norway rat highway. Big Bear Creek and Little Bear Creek cross Colleyville on their way east toward the Trinity, with wooded bottoms, greenbelt trails and drainage easements along them, and the houses that back onto that ground see burrowing rats at foundations, under decks and in barns and workshops as well as roof rats above. Horse property on the larger lots adds feed rooms and hay, which draw both species.
The inspection tells the two apart from the droppings, since roof rat droppings run a quarter to half an inch with pointed ends per UF/IFAS, and seals at ground level for the one and at the eave for the other. Calls ramp in the fall and peak in January and February as the animals move indoors for warmth, so a creekside house is best sealed before October. Roof rat removal handles the attic side of a Colleyville job.
What We Handle in Colleyville
Colleyville calls run to roof rats in the attics of the wooded subdivisions, Norway rats along the two Bear Creeks, and outbuildings on the larger lots.
- Roof rat removal: snap trapping on the attic runs, with traps left down at least a week because roof rats avoid new objects, per UF/IFAS.
- Rodent exclusion: ridge ends, gable vents, soffit seams, returns and weep holes closed in hardware cloth and sheet metal.
- Rodent inspection: free, covering the house, the garage, the barn or workshop, and the trees and lines that reach the roof.
- Mouse removal: the quarter-inch gaps at the garage seal and the utility sleeves, and the feed room on horse property.
- Attic cleanup: droppings and fouled insulation removed from a large attic that hid a season of activity.
- Attic insulation replacement: new blown fill where the old is packed flat, since the Department of Energy notes compressed insulation falls short of its rated R-value.
- Rodent clearance letters: a written report for a sale or an insurance claim.
A Typical Colleyville Job
The situation: The owners of a 1980s brick single-story on an acre lot backing onto a Little Bear Creek easement hear scratching above the master bedroom every night from the first cold week of November. A pecan limb rests on the roof over that room. They have been sleeping with the television on.
What gets done: The free inspection finds the soffit seam parted under the pecan limb, a gable vent screened with insect mesh and chewed through, and roof rat droppings along the attic top plate above the master. At the back fence a burrow sits under the workshop slab. The contractor we route closes the seam and the gable in steel that day, traps the attic run for a week with the ridge end as the last opening, and screens the workshop slab edge with hardware cloth turned into the ground.
How it turns out: Three roof rats in the first week and none after, the ridge end plugged on the second visit, and the limb cut back the same month. The quote listed the roofline sealing, the workshop sealing and the trapping as three separate lines.
What This Costs in Colleyville
A typical Colleyville rodent job falls inside the published national bands, and the free inspection confirms which lines the property needs.
| Work | National band (HomeGuide 2026) |
|---|---|
| Inspection | Free here; $0 to $175 standalone nationally |
| Trapping and removal | $250 to $1,200 |
| Full-home exclusion | $500 to $2,500 |
| Attic cleanup and decontamination | $600 to $2,500 |
| Attic insulation removal and replacement | $2.50 to $5.50 per square foot |
| Dead rodent removal | $150 to $500 |
A Colleyville single-story with one seam and one vent open sits in the lower half of the exclusion band, while a two-story with returns at each roof step plus a barn or workshop climbs toward the top. Ask whoever attends to price the house and the outbuildings separately and to say what the sealing warranty covers.
Mice, squirrels, or something else
How the signs differ between the two.
Video: Signs of Mice vs. Squirrels In Your Attic, from Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control.
Common Questions in Colleyville
What callers from Colleyville want to know before they book.
Call (817) 710-2756What keeps rats away permanently on a wooded lot?
A roofline and garage with no opening over a quarter inch. The trees can be cut back from the roof and should be, but UF/IFAS notes a roof rat ranges about 150 yards from its den along limbs, wires and fence tops, so on a wooded acre there is always another road. Repellents and ultrasonic plugs do nothing about the seam. Steel at the seam, the vents and the returns is what holds, whatever the trees do.
How long does it usually take?
Two visits over two to three weeks on most Colleyville houses. HomeGuide puts trapping a small number of animals at two to three days and a severe infestation at one to two months, and UF/IFAS advises leaving traps down at least a week because roof rats are wary of new objects. A large attic that has carried animals since the fall sits toward the longer end.
Do you cover the barn and the workshop as well as the house?
Yes, on the same visit. A feed room or a workshop with a slab edge open to a burrow is where a Colleyville infestation often starts, and sealing the house while leaving the barn open moves the problem across the yard. The inspection covers every structure on the lot, and the quote prices each one on its own line so the owner can decide what to do first.
Who is licensed for this in Tarrant County?
Controlling rats or mice for pay in Texas takes a structural pest control business license from the Texas Department of Agriculture and a certified applicator under the Structural Pest Control Act. Every contractor we route into Colleyville carries it. Look up the TPCL number on the department current-license list before work starts and ask for proof of insurance.
Nearby Areas We Serve
The contractors who cover Colleyville also cover the towns next to it, and the service area takes in Tarrant County together with the rest of the Fort Worth metro.